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Re: Heads up: *possible* bug in cygwin


> On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 10:05:10AM +0000, Steven O'Brien wrote:

> >In glib-1.2.10, gutils.c: g_get_any_init (void), the current user
> >details are obtained from /etc/passwd. This code is called as part of
> >glib initialisation, whether the app wants this data or not. It uses
> >sysconf (_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX) to decide how much buffer to allocate for
> >this data. But on cygwin this appears broken, and the call to getpwuid_r
> >(getuid (), &pwd, buffer, bufsize, &pw) *may* overrun buffer, depending
> >on the length of the line in /etc/passwd for the current user.

Have you experienced an overrun? I see code in cygwin to set errno to 
ERANGE if the buffer is too small.

Pierre

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